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Part of head coach Molefi Ntseki’s technical team is goalkeeper coach and former Bafana goalkeeper Andre Arendse who played in a number of Nelson Mandela Challenge matches in the past against quality opposition.

Bafana have played the likes of Brazil, Argentina, France, Holland, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Egypt, Zambia and many more teams as part of this Nelson Mandela Challenge match.

Bafana players and technical team visited some of the hospital wards this morning and Maholwana has wished the men’s senior national football team all the best in their game against Mali this coming weekend.

Bafana Bafana visited the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital (NMCH) in Johannesburg this morning to give hope to the kids as part of their build-up to the Nelson Mandela Challenge match against Mali in Port Elizabeth this weekend.

Mark Mayambela has finally found a new home, having been snapped up by Cape Town City. The former Chippa United Captain had been a free agent since leaving the Chilli Boys at the end of last season, and had spent the past few weeks training with Benni McCarthy’s City outfit.

Namibian sensation Helalia Johannes won the Johannesburg leg of the SPAR Women’s 10 kilometre Challenge at Marks Park Sports Club yesterday afternoon. She won the race in the record time of 33.6 seconds.

Jomo Cosmos won their first match of the 2019/20 Glad Africa Championship when they narrowly defeated Cape Umoya 1-0 at Giyani stadium this afternoon.

Netball and Softball were the biggest winners at the 2019 Limpopo Sports awards held at Meropa Casino on Friday. Netball President Cecilia Molokwane won administrator of the Year and the MEC’s Excellence Award.

Ajax Cape Town picked up their second win in a row in the Glad Africa Championship, beating Steenberg United 2-1 in a derby at the Cape Town Stadium on Saturday.

Munster Coach Johann van Graan has described their PRO14 match against the Southern Kings a scrappy affair even though they beat the Kings 31-20 at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday

It came down to cup game experience and a brilliant first half header from Supersport United goal poacher Bradley Grobler as Matsatsantsa a Pitoli edged out Highlands Park 1-0 in the MTN8 final played at Orlando Stadium on Saturday

Southern Kings utility back Sibusiso Sithole is confident that the Port Elizabeth-based franchise will do well in the PRO14 this season unlike in the past two seasons where they finished bottom in their conference.

Netball South Africa President Cecilia Molokwane says the country is not in danger of losing their top players to overseas countries.

Former South African Olympian Elana Meyer believes that track and field athletes will make the country proud going into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in Japan. Track and field athletes brought back home four medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brazil.

The game could not have come at the right time for former United midfield maestro Reneilwe Letsholonyane who is likely to be handed his Highlands debut against a side he spent the last three seasons with.

Da Gama insists they are a God-fearing side and does not need to pay a visit to a traditional doctor to aid them in overcoming United.

Dubbed the traditional home of domestic football, the Orlando Stadium will host SuperSport United and Highlands Park as they battle out for the R8 million-prized MTN8 title tomorrow evening.

Canoe Polo South Africa chairperson Chris de Bree believes that the sport will be a future Olympic sport.

Very few players can pride themselves in having played in amateur ranks, helped their clubs to gain promotion to the elite leagues and played in cup finals with a team that developed them.

Patience is a key word for goalkeepers especially at a team where a national team number one is playing and Highlands Park goalkeeper Thela Ngobeni can attest to this. The

Domestic first class cricket starts next week in South Africa, and the World Sports Betting Cobras will head off to Potchefstroom where they will take on defending 4-day domestic series champions the Highveld Lions.

Dolphins captain Khaya Zondo is hoping a change of management will also bring a change of fortune for the Durban-based team when the 2019/20 season begins next week.

One could be forgiven for calling newly signed Highlands Park veteran midfielder Reneilwe “Yeye” Letsholonyane “Mr MTN8”. Back in 2008, in the first cup final of Wafa-Wafa, Letsholonyane featured in his first cup final for Amakhosi and scored the winning penalty.

A Highlands versus SuperSport Cup final was always going to struggle to sell out and together with the PSL, Mazibuko says MTN has had to come up with extraordinary measures to attract a capacity crowd.

Mazibuko further reveals only for this final, the Man-of-the-Match will also pocket the same amount instead of the usual R8, 000.